This
course explores the challenges of leading those with whom we do not have direct
contact and is a companion course to GBUS 8703 Tactical Leadership. The course will
help students develop the skill sets involved in finding purpose, visioning,
scenario planning, competing, building human capital, social capital, and
organizational capital, designing effective organizational architectures, mass
communication, placing their organization in a global society, and leading
large-scale organizational change efforts. These skills are necessary for those
in senior management charged with setting the agenda for an organization and
ensuring a company’s positioning in the global economy. Course modules on
organizational purpose, visioning, strategy, and leading large-scale
organizational change will help students develop the ability to set a strategic
agenda for a large organization. The course assumes familiarity with and will
build upon the concepts introduced in the FY Strategy and Leading Organizations
courses. Principle modes of instruction will be cases, readings, latest trade
books, exercises, films, role playing, skill-building exercises, discussion,
and short writing assignments. The main deliverable is a paper presenting a
complete organizational charter (mission, vision, values, strategy, and
short-term operating goals) for a large existing company of choice.

Academic
course objectives:

·Teach
students the skills sets to place their organizations in a global society and
lead large-scale organizational change

·Provide
students with the skills necessary for setting agendas for their organizations to
ensure their positioning in the global economy

·Build
upon the concepts introduced in the FY Strategy and FY Leading Organizations
courses